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The collection includes quotes from the novel “Anna Karenina” by Leo Tolstoy, written in 1873-1877. I? Do you find it? I'm not weird, but I'm bad. Eh, it happens to me. I keep wanting to cry. It's very stupid, but it goes away. - So I didn’t want to leave St. Petersburg, but now I don’t want to leave here.

God gave the day, God gave strength. Both the day and energy are devoted to work, and in it itself is the reward.

I have never missed the village, the Russian village, with the bast shoes and the peasants, as much as I did when I spent the winter with my mother in Nice. Nice in itself is boring, you know. And Naples and Sorrento are good only for a short time. And it is there that Russia is especially vividly remembered, and it is the village.

All the diversity, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of shadow and light.

I was looking for an answer to my question. But thought could not give me an answer to my question; it was incommensurate with the question. Life itself gave me the answer, in my knowledge of what is good and what is bad. And I did not acquire this knowledge by anything, but it was given to me along with everyone else, given because I could not take it from anywhere.

Everything is confused, there are children running around alone.

I always think that men do not understand what is noble and ignoble, but they always talk about it.

It's all because of that stupid smile.

This is our Russian indifference - not to feel the duties that our rights impose on us, and therefore to deny these duties.

Yes, Alabin gave dinner on glass tables, yes, - and the tables sang: Il mio tesoro, and not Il mio tesoro, but something better, and some small decanters, and they were women.

I recognize zealous horses by some of their brands, I recognize young lovers by their eyes.

Yes, to become your mistress and destroy everything...

What he called his beliefs was not only ignorance, but that it was a mindset in which it was impossible to know what he needed.

The only salvation from people is to hide your wounds from them.

Not at all, why do you despise Matvey and me so much?

Your wife is getting old, but you are full of life. Before you know it, you already feel that you cannot love your wife with love, no matter how much you respect her. And then suddenly love turns up, and you’re gone, gone!

Pretense in anything can deceive the most intelligent, insightful person: but the most limited child, no matter how skillfully it is hidden, recognizes it and is disgusted.

There is a way out of every situation. We need to decide.

Shame and disgrace! - answered the colonel. - The only thing you’re afraid of is meeting Russians abroad.

How often the happiness of marriages scatters like dust, precisely because that same passion appears that was not recognized.

She began to think with pleasure about how he would suffer, repent and love her memory when it was too late.

Levin made the remark long ago that when it becomes awkward with people because of their excessive compliance and submissiveness, it will very soon become unbearable because of their excessive demands and pickiness.

He realized that she was not only close to him, but that he now did not know where she ended and he began.

People who cannot do anything should make people, and the rest should contribute to their enlightenment and happiness.

Well, go, my little Tanchurochka.

On Varenka, she realized that all she had to do was forget herself and love others, and she would be calm, happy and beautiful. And this is what Kitty wanted to be...

You cannot forbid a person to make himself a large wax doll and kiss it. But if this man with a doll came and sat down in front of the lover and began to caress his doll, as a lover caresses the one he loves, then the lover would feel unpleasant

Man is given reason to get rid of what bothers him.

There are no conditions to which a person cannot get used, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives the same way.

Vronsky’s mother, having learned about his connection, was at first pleased - both because, in her opinion, nothing gave the final finishing touch to a brilliant young man like a connection in high society, and because Karenina, who she liked so much, talked so much about her son, she was still the same as all beautiful and decent women, according to the concepts of Countess Vronskaya.

Denying a fact is not the answer.

He could not look at her for a long time, like the sun, but he saw her like the sun, even without looking.

Love those who hate you, but you cannot love those you hate.

He knew that she was there by the joy and fear that gripped his heart. She stood talking to a lady at the opposite end of the skating rink. There seemed to be nothing special about her clothes or her posture; but for Levin it was as easy to recognize her in this crowd as a rose in a nettle. Everything was illuminated by her. She had a smile that lit up everything around.

In addition to intelligence, grace, beauty, there was truthfulness in her... What an amazing, sweet and pitiful woman.

Like generally impeccably moral women, tired of the monotony of moral life, she from afar not only excused criminal love, but even envied it.

There are less delights in life when you think about death, but it is calmer.

A woman who did not guess with her heart where the happiness and honor of her son lay, has no heart.

Lost battles usually start with lucky shots.

If good has a cause, it is no longer good; if it has a consequence - a reward, it is also not good. Therefore, good is outside the chain of cause and effect.

You can save a person who does not want to die; but if the whole nature is so corrupted and depraved that destruction itself seems to her salvation, then what to do?

For him, all the girls in the world are divided into two types: - one type is all the girls in the world except her, and these girls have all human weaknesses, and the girls are very ordinary; another type - she is alone, without any weaknesses and above everything human.

Respect was invented in order to hide the empty place where love should be.

Yes, brother, women are the screw on which everything turns.

A believer cannot be unhappy, because he is not alone.

Do you remember that I forbade you to say the word “love”, this disgusting word, - Anna said, shuddering; but immediately she felt that with this one word: forbidden, she showed that she recognized her right to him and thereby encouraged him to talk about love.

You can feel it in the air, you can feel it in your heart

All happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

I think, I think... if there are so many heads, so many minds, then there are so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

Everything was mixed up in the Oblonskys’ house.

I can't think about you and myself separately. You and I are one for me

This whole world of ours is a small mold that has grown on a tiny planet. And we think that we can have something great - thoughts, deeds!

“I’ve tried everything,” he thought, “there’s only one thing left to do—not pay attention.”

...My life now, my whole life, regardless of everything that can happen to me, every minute of it is not only not meaningless as it was before, but has an undoubted meaning of good, which I have the power to put into it!

“All happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. »

“You want the activity of one person to always have a purpose, so that love and family life are always one. But this does not happen. All the diversity, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of shadow and light. »

“Before you have time to look back, you already feel that you cannot love your wife with love, no matter how much you respect her. »

“We must live by the needs of the day, that is, forget ourselves. »

“As often happens between people who have chosen different types of activity, each of them, although, in reasoning, justifies the activity of the other, in his soul he despises it. It seemed to everyone that the life that he himself led was one real life, and that the life that his friend led was only a ghost. »

“And I’m not fit for other people. »

“The conversation started nicely, but precisely because he was too nice, he stopped again. It was necessary to resort to a sure and never changing means - slander. »

“No matter how much he told himself that he was not to blame for anything, this memory, along with other shameful memories of the same kind, made him shudder and blush. »

“She didn't renounce everything she had learned, but she realized that she had been fooling herself into thinking she could be what she wanted to be. »

“But as soon as he remembered what he was doing and began to try to do better, he immediately felt the full burden of work. »

“If you please, get out! »

“The pain was strange and terrible, but now it’s gone.”

“Everyone could know, suspect it, but no one should dare to speak. »

“Please get out. »

“He liked all this, but he had liked it so many times already! »

“If you seek perfection, you will never be satisfied. »

“Everything is saved by death. »

"Scary drama"

“In infinite time, in the infinity of matter, in infinite space, a bubble-organism stands out, and this bubble will hold on and burst, and this bubble is me.”

“The terrible thing is that you cannot uproot the past. You can’t tear it out, but you can hide the memory of him.”

“In order to do anything in family life, either complete discord between spouses or loving consent is necessary. When the relationship between the spouses is uncertain and there is neither one nor the other, no business can be undertaken. Many families remain for years in their old places, hateful to both spouses, only because there is neither complete discord nor agreement.”

“If you seek perfection, you will never be satisfied”

“The road is not a reward, but labor. And I wish you understood this. Now, if you work and study in order to receive a reward, then the work will seem hard to you; but when you work, loving the work, you will find a reward for yourself in it.”

“There are no conditions to which a person cannot get used, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives the same way. Every person, knowing to the smallest detail the complexity of the conditions surrounding him, involuntarily assumes that the complexity of these conditions and the difficulty their understanding is only his personal, accidental peculiarity, and does not in any way think that others are surrounded by the same complexity of their personal conditions as he is.”

“Doubt is inherent in human weakness”

“On this occasion, Levin told Yegor his idea that the main thing in marriage is love and that with love you will always be happy, because happiness can only be found in yourself.”

“Why do you need to be like anyone? “You are good the way you are,” Varenka said, smiling her meek and tired smile.”

“Women, you see, this is such a subject that no matter how much you study it, everything will be completely new.

- It’s better not to study it.

- No. Some mathematician said that pleasure does not lie in the discovery of truth, but in seeking it."

“When delving into our souls, we often unearth things that would lie there unnoticed.”

“No, I think, no joke, that in order to know love, you have to make a mistake and then get better,” said Princess Betsy.”

“All the diversity, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of shadow and light”

““If good has a cause, it is no longer good; if it has a consequence - a reward, it is also not good. Therefore, good is outside the chain of cause and effect.”

“If good has a cause, it is no longer good; if it has a consequence - a reward, it is also not good. There be a herd, goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.”

“It seemed to everyone that the life that he himself led was one real life, and that the life that his friend led was only a ghost.”

"struggle in the infinite"

"struggle in the endless

“Her eyes lit up with hatred. »

“If you love, then you love the whole person as he is, and not as I want him to be.”

“All happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

“All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”

“If good has a cause, it is no longer good; if it has a consequence - a reward, it is also not good. There be a herd, goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.”

“All happy families are alike, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. »»

"No one is happy with his condition, and everyone is happy with his mind"

“The only salvation from people is to hide your wounds from them.”

“He realized that she was not only close to him, but that he now did not know where she ended and he began.”

“Stupid beef! Am I really like that? - he thought. (Vronsky)"

“You can insult an honest man and an honest woman, but telling a thief that he is a thief is only la constatation d""un fait [establishing a fact (French)]."

“I’m a bad woman, I’m a lost woman,” she thought, “but I don’t like to lie, I can’t stand lies, and his (husband’s) food is a lie. He knows everything, sees everything; what does he feel if he can speak so calmly? If he killed me, if he killed Vronsky, I would respect him. But no, he only needs lies and decency," Anna told herself, not thinking about what exactly she wanted from her husband, how she would want him see."

“And here’s my opinion. Women are the main stumbling block in human activity. It's hard to love a woman and do anything. For this there is only one means to love comfortably, without hindrance - this is marriage. How, how can I tell you what I think,” said Serpukhovsky, who loved comparisons, “wait, wait!” Yes, how to carry a fardeau [load] and do anything with your hands is only possible when the fardeau is tied behind your back - and this is marriage. And I felt this when I got married. Suddenly my hands were empty. But without marriage, dragging this fardeau with you - your hands will be so full that you can’t do anything. Look at Mazankova, Krupova. They ruined their careers because of women."

“They say that whoever is best man more than ten times will not marry; “I wanted to come for the tenth time to insure myself, but the place was taken,” Count Sinyavin said to the pretty Princess Charskaya, who had designs on him.”

“A man must be independent, he has his own masculine interests. A man must be courageous,” said Oblonsky, opening the gate.

So what? Should I go and look after the yard girls? - Levin asked.

Why not go if it's fun? Сa ne tirez pas a consequence [This will not have any consequences (French)] My wife will not be worse off from this, but I will have fun. The main thing is to take care of the shrine at home. There should be nothing in the house. And don’t tie your hands.”

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All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
The first phrase (part 1, chapter 1) of the novel “Anna Karenina” (1875) by L. N. Tolstoy (1828-1910).
Quoted: As advice, consider the specific cause of family troubles. Sometimes it serves as a form of consolation in difficult circumstances: “everyone has their own problems,” “to each their own,” “it’s not easy for everyone,” etc.

Encyclopedic Dictionary of winged words and expressions. - M.: “Locked-Press”. Vadim Serov. 2003.


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